SAFV: Series Kyalami preview

Kyalami Promises Plenty of Close Action Packed Racing
The 2009 South African National Formula Vee Championship, enters the second
half of an extremely close season, with the Lasersprint duo, of Jaco
Schriks (No7 Lasersprint Rhema 2)...

Kyalami Promises Plenty of Close Action Packed Racing

The 2009 South African National Formula Vee Championship, enters the second
half of an extremely close season, with the Lasersprint duo, of Jaco
Schriks (No7 Lasersprint Rhema 2) and ex Champion Alan Holm (No4
Lasersprint Rhema 2), heading the Championship log. This fifth round, of
the eight round 2009 season, takes place at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit,
on the 11th June 2009 and includes Regional Championship races for, Nashua
Mobile Historic Touring Cars, Nashua Mobile Historic Sports and GT Cars and
Kent Formula Ford and Club Championship races for, Nashua Mobile Historic
Marque Cars, Historic Racing Cars, Historic Group Motorcycles, Alfa Romeo
Trofeo, Nashua Mobile HRCR Heritage Saloons and Pre 66 Legends Saloon and
GT Cars. With a dynamic mix of modern and historic racing cars, saloon
cars, sports and GT cars, motorcycles and single seaters, the event caters
fro a wide taste and should not be missed.

The Formula Vee race will be run in conjunction with the Formula Ford Kent
race, with each category starting about a minute apart giving spectators
the unique opportunity of watching two separate races, taking place at the
same time. Challenging Schriks and Holm, should once again be the young
development driver Courtney Steenveld (No 2NLDTF Rhema 2), ex Champions
Peter Hills (No2 BJ Pro Welding/Prolantic Rhema 2) and Symm Grobler (No8
Auto Mecca Rhema 2), along with Trevor Bland (No5 Rhema 2), fifteen year
old Chad Van Beurden (No55 Rhema 2), fresh from the first win of his
Formula Vee career, in the second heat at Zwartkops and the other
development driver Zaahir Essa (NLDTF Rhema1).

A surprise entry for this race is, is Ben Pienaar in the No9 BJ Pro Welding
Rhema 2. After his frightening barrel roll at Zwartkops on the 20th June,
it was extremely doubtful, that he or the car would ever race again, net
alone three weeks later. After seeing the car on the trailer, behind Hugo
Walendorf's bakkie, I jokingly said to Peter Hills "Are you going to have
the car fixed for the Kyalami race." He said sure no problem and I honestly
thought he was joking too but he and Walendorf, with perhaps some help from
Dean Nel, with the chassis, have rebuilt the car and changed Ben's plan to
call it a day, in a mere three weeks of burning the mid night oil!